river floodway in louisiana to try to protect new orleans. they have opened the bonnie carrie spillway into lake pontchartrain which has in effect on us because the fresh water, some of it gets into the gulf of mexico and affects our fisheries. but the corps has and now they have to decide whether or not to open the floodway at morganza, louisiana, to protect new orleans. these levees were designed to handle a certain amount of water and if you exceed that amount, you have great risk and that s why these floodways exist to make sure that amount is not exceeded. now, i am not an engineer. but i trust the corps judgment on this. and when you have a plan, you need to execute the plan because a lot of thinking has gone into it over a long number of years. so i don t have any objection, even though it has very, very little effect on us. let me ask you about 2012 as
a tough call to make. they have to decide whether to direct the waters through beige and new orleans or open a floodway. the 25,000 people who live in the way, they re preparing for the worst, but the decision will likely spare more than 1 million residents of baton rouge and new orleans. if you ve been feeling particularly lousy recently, doctors say this allergy season is a tough one. they say over the counter drugs are a quick fix but one expert suggesting going a few steps further, closing your windows and doors in the morning and avoiding contact with the bed and clothing that you have worn outside. and gsorry charlie, cbs announced ashton kutcher will replace charlie sheen on the new season of two and a half men. kutcher says i can t replace charlie sheen, but i am going to work my butt off to entertain the heck out of people. word is he won t be getting
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out
smaller cities in the united states. he wanted operatives to take note of prominent american hol i had days. a major disaster declared in 14 mississippi counties as historic flood waters surge south this morning. louisiana already bracing. it may open a floodway that hasn t been used in 1973. that move could wash out 3 million acres of land. reynolds wolf is following all the extreme weather this morning. you know how we re used to see so much weather phenomenon strike quickly, say, for example, tornadoes. this is a slow moving process that will affect so many living along the mississippi river. we re looking at numbers where we can see record flooding. many places and we re looking at this really getting under way in some spots south of memphis like in vicksburg on may 19th, which should be 14.5 feet above the normal stage. natchez, red river landing in baton rouge 12.5.
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